Sunday, February 8, 2009
Jan Goals, Create Change, Redirection
Repeat 20 Times Today... "I Can Do This!" Believe It...
Who Says You Can't?
Stop creating artificial limitations for yourself. When you say "I can't," you limit yourself. Make conscious choices about who you're going to be from now on, and you'll instantly improve the quality of your life.
Who you WERE makes no difference when you declare "from now on, I AM. . . "
Today's Quest...
What personal limitations would you like to eliminate right now? _________________________________
Think of something you previously believed you couldn't do. Is it still true? _________________________________
What will you tackle today to prove to yourself that YES I CAN!
Maintain "To-Be-Done" List -- Prioritized it by Value...
Your dream deserves a place of honor on your list of things to do today.
"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."~ Lee Iacocca
Today's Quest...
Have you carefully prioritized your To Do List today? _________________________________
Is your top priority today derived from your top objective? _________________________________
As soon as you are finished with this task, what's your next priority? _________________________________
Create Systems to Maximize Time -- Yours & Others...
A good way to pass along messages without interrupting is to use E-mail or voice mail. When you leave a message, give as much information as possible to reduce phone tag.
Make your voice and electronic mail quick and effective. Before you write or talk, think. Tell the person what specific action or response you need.
"Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts."~ Ted W. Engstrom
Today's Quest...
When you make your next call, will a voice-mail message work or do you need to speak with the other person? _________________________________
Do you really need to have a personal conversation when you make your next call? _________________________________
Was your last message clear, complete and specific? _________________________________
Make Time for What You Want...
Once You Know What You Want,Do You Take Action To Get It?
The first step is identifying those things that have the highest payoff for you. The second step is to give more time to those priorities in your life.
To increase your success this month, do more of what's most rewarding to you.
"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."~ Vince Lombardi
Today's Quest...
Have you taken the time to identify what's most important to get done today? _________________________________
You're always doing something. Why not do something of value? _________________________________
If there's something important that you've been thinking about doing, what will you do in the next 24 hours to take action on it? _________________________________
Make it Easy for Others to Help...
Do You Know What Empowerment Means?
A true leader is not served, but rather serves those he leads.
Those who would lead must first learn to serve, and then to inspire those they would lead.
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."~ Arthur Ashe
Today's Quest...
Have you done everything possible to ensure that your co-workers feel good about their best efforts today? _________________________________
Can you identify any barriers that may be preventing your co-workers from doing their best work? What can you do today to remove them? _________________________________
Whom can you help with a difficult task today? _________________________________
Seek to Double Your Results -- Ask "What Else Now"...
Chew Gum And Walk?
When you learn how to accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously, you'll multiply your results and make the most of every moment in your day.
Conduct your day like a symphony -- find ways to let the oboes and violins play in harmony.
"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal."~ Don Shula
Today's Quest...
Which of your tasks today will you handle simultaneously? _________________________________
Can you streamline tomorrow's schedule by piggy-backing some items? _________________________________
Which two appointments will you combine into one this week? _________________________________
Remain Constantly Connected to Your Mission...
Listen! Do You Wanna Know A Secret?
The secret to life is giving. There's no greater reward than knowing you've enriched the lives of others through your contributions.
Tap into the secret of life...Enrich this day for someone.
"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."~ Simone Weil
Today's Quest...
What have you contributed to your little corner of the world in the last week? _________________________________
What contribution can you offer to your world right now? _________________________________
In what ways would you like to contribute more? _________________________________
Create Highly Compelling Visions. Clarify. Evaluate. Commit...
Does Your Vision Have Value?
Real vision comes from real value. Where there's real value in the organization, people don't need to be inspired to work. They're inspired -- already!
People are inspired by a vision worthy of their contribution. Find a way today to tie other people's work to a worthy vision.
"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, "there goes another day of my life, never to return," you will become time conscious."~ A. B. Zu Tavern
Today's Quest...
What's the inherent value in your organization's vision? _________________________________
Who in your organization seems to manifest best a belief in its values? _________________________________
What can you do to communicate your vision, and its value to others? _________________________________
Search Beyond Acceptable -- Find the BEST Alternatives...
Do You Postpone Tough Decisions?
Don't needlessly postpone making a tough decision. When you do, you multiply your problems down the road.
Once you've made a tough decision, do it... NOW!
"The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates."~ W. Alton Jones
Today's Quest...
Could anyone else shed more light on your choices? Who? _________________________________
Are you having trouble with a difficult problem only because you don't have all the facts? _________________________________
Is there anything else you need to know before making an upcoming decision? _________________________________
Speak Clearly -- Listen Carefully -- Confirm Messages...
May I Have Your Attention?
The most important part of speaking is the introduction. If you don't grab your listener's attention at once, chances are you never will.
Persuade your listeners to give you their attention first. Then communicate your message.
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."~ John G. Pollard
Today's Quest...
How many important conversations will you have today? _________________________________
With whom do you need to speak next? What will you say to get their undivided attention? _________________________________
What does your next listener most want to hear about? _________________________________
Live Each of Your Top 10 Core Personal Values -- All Day Long...
Can You Find Purpose In Preparing Your Next Meal?
If you want satisfaction in your life, link a higher purpose to every single thing you do.
Give your life a greater meaning by making each step of your day a purposeful positive step.
"People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning."~ Dennis the Menace
Today's Quest...
How many of your daily tasks can be influenced by your personal mission? _________________________________
How can you perform your next task as a function of your mission? _________________________________
How will you feel if you give each little thing you do today more meaning by connecting it to a higher purpose? _________________________________
Commit to Actually DOING Whatever It Takes -- Then DO It...
Are You Feeling Powerless To Change The World?
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never tried to sleep in a room with a mosquito.
Even the smallest action can make a measurable and noticeable difference. Identify something in this week's schedule for which you can don your mosquito costume.
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's Quest...
In what specific ways, today, can you be as persistent, determined and relentless as that mosquito? _________________________________
When others say you can't, do you agree with them. Or do you become more determined to succeed? _________________________________
Is there someone in your family who could use a new improved perspective of personal power? _________________________________
Stop and Think Things Through -- BEFORE Taking Action...
Why Do You Think They Send Out Scouting Parties?
Don't reinvent the wheel. Whenever you start a new job, see what's been done before. There are already trails blazed out there. Simply follow the best one.
Consult, confer and copy the best.
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."~ Plato
Today's Quest...
Is there an ego thing that keeps you from admiring and learning from others' successes? _________________________________
Which of your new jobs, tasks or roles could use some insight from someone who's already been there? _________________________________
What research can you do to prepare for that project you've been dreading? _________________________________
Create Highly Productive Systems to DO the Work FOR You...
Are You Organizing Or Agonizing?
Discover what actions have the greatest payoff for you. Then organize and automate your systems to support those actions.
Create the time to do more A1's by automating everything that leads to your A1 activities.
"Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."~ James Ling
Today's Quest...
How will you automate at least two things that payoff in a greater return for your time and effort? _________________________________
What's the most important thing you do? How can you automate these actions so that you can do more of them? _________________________________
What do you do that has the greatest payoff? How can you automate the process that leads you to those high payoff activities?
Actively Recruit Others to Help...
Anybody Else Want To Play?
There are incredibly talented people willing and able to participate in your dream. They only need your vision, your direction and your appreciation. Together, there's nothing you can't do.
Great dreams are never accomplished alone.
"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do."~ Albert Gray
Today's Quest...
If there were an ideal team position that you'd like to fill, which one would it be right now? _________________________________
Who needs and wants more responsibility on your team? _________________________________
Where would your dream be helped by the addition of a new team member? _________________________________
Continuously Monitor Your Energy Level to Your Current Performance...
So How'd You Feel When You Left Work Yesterday?
Peak performance demands that you control, pace, and renew your energy on a continous basis throughout the day. You simply can't start with a charged battery each morning, run it down all day, and expect to completely recharge it overnight.
Peak power results from self-awareness and self maintenance -- not self-abuse.
"I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best."~ Akeem Olajuwon
Today's Quest...
When you get home and turn into a lump, what are you missing out on? _________________________________
What time is a consistently low energy point in your day? _________________________________
What will you do to energize yourself before your next appointment?
Calendar the Major Milestones of EVERY Goal...
How Can You Build More Celebration Into Your Life?
A properly set goal contains a series of objectives built into it.
Objectives bring clarity where there's fuzziness, scheduling them brings them into reality.
"Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination."~ Fitzhugh Dodson
Today's Quest...
How many separate goals will it take to reach your ultimate career goal? _________________________________
What's the next objective on the path to this month's goal? _________________________________
What will your A1 objective be tomorrow? _________________________________
Focus on Your Top Priorities -- First...
Don't Know Where To Start?
Which of your tasks today will give you the greatest payoff? Schedule those into your calendar first.
Trim your list. Choose those items that will give the most return for your time and your effort, and focus on them first.
"The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place."~ Roger Birkman
Today's Quest...
Where do you have control over your time choices today? _________________________________
What do you predict will be today's greatest payoff activity? _________________________________
Where is the best time slot in your schedule for your highest payoff item today? _________________________________
Dream Big -- Lead by Example and Inspire True Commitment...
Want To Know Where Your Organization Will End Up?
The only way to control the future of your organization is to create it.
You can predict your future only when you put yourself in charge of it.
"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."~ Norman Allen
Today's Quest...
What do you want the future to hold for your organization? _________________________________
What can you do today to "predict" your organization's future? _________________________________
What attitudes and actions are required by you and your people right now to guarantee the future you want? _________________________________
Take Full Responsibility for How Your Day Works Out...
Missing Something?
If you feel something's lacking in your life, don't promise yourself you'll start on it "later" when conditions are better. Start now.
"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!" - Goethe
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."~ George Bernard Shaw
Today's Quest...
What's one thing you've wanted to add to your life but haven't yet? _________________________________
Where in today's schedule can you get started on that project you never seem to find time for? _________________________________
What do you always dream of?
Get Fully Engaged Quickly -- Or Get Out Gracefully...
Time Is Money. Can You Afford To Waste Either?
Did you ever stop to examine the actual cost of your meetings? If you multiply each person's hourly salary by the length of the meeting, you may be appalled at the total cost of the meeting.
Weigh the actual cost of your next scheduled meeting against what will be gained by holding it.
"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."~ Ovid
Today's Quest...
Do some quick math. Approximately how much did your last meeting cost? _________________________________
Think about the cost of your meetings. When are they worth it? _________________________________
How much will your next scheduled meeting cost, approximately? _________________________________
Put a Value on Time Invested...
Are You Wasting Time Wishing For More Time?
Your life is a fixed sum of days. You'll never know the total until it's over. The only thing you do know is that after today, you'll have one day less.
If you want to make every minute count, start with this one.
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's Quest...
After today is gone forever, where will you be the most proud of the time you invested? _________________________________
How many days do you have left? _________________________________
How many days are you willing to spend, foolishly believing you have plenty more days to spare? _________________________________
Minimize Mistakes by Following Checklists...
Who's Watching The Nuts And Bolts?
Look at the flow of your work. Find patterns that repeat. Create a checklist, and then make sure that someone keeps these patterns flowing with "checked-off" perfection.
When your success depends on procedures, depend on checklists.
"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."~ John W. Gardner
Today's Quest...
How often do you perform your present task? _________________________________
Would putting your repeated routines on a list help streamline them? _________________________________
Whom can you put in charge to oversee your daily checklists? _________________________________
Do What's Important Next -- Regardless of Difficulty...
Are You Following Your List? Really?
Arrange items on your priority list in order of their importance. Then start at the top and work down. Make it a rule: Never purposely skip an item just because you don't want to do it.
Do first things first today. Finish them first, too.
"Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one."~ Kirk Kirkpatrick
Today's Quest...
Have you skipped anything on your list today? Ready to go back? _________________________________
What are you telling yourself when you've skipped over an important item several days in a row? _________________________________
What can you do to make sure that you address your top projects first thing tomorrow? _________________________________
Persist With Passion Until the Desired Results are Attained...
Are You Walking The Walk, Or Just Talking The Talk?
Simply setting a goal is not enough. If you want to reach your goal, you must continue taking whatever actions are necessary until you do.
Goals must be continuously reinforced with the passion and the reasons for attaining the goal.
"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."~ Irving Berlin
Today's Quest...
How many of your daily routines are directly tied to your goals? _________________________________
What neglected commitment can you attend to today? _________________________________
Which activities in tomorrow's schedule will payoff your most important goals? _________________________________
Who Says You Can't?
Stop creating artificial limitations for yourself. When you say "I can't," you limit yourself. Make conscious choices about who you're going to be from now on, and you'll instantly improve the quality of your life.
Who you WERE makes no difference when you declare "from now on, I AM. . . "
Today's Quest...
What personal limitations would you like to eliminate right now? _________________________________
Think of something you previously believed you couldn't do. Is it still true? _________________________________
What will you tackle today to prove to yourself that YES I CAN!
Maintain "To-Be-Done" List -- Prioritized it by Value...
Your dream deserves a place of honor on your list of things to do today.
"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."~ Lee Iacocca
Today's Quest...
Have you carefully prioritized your To Do List today? _________________________________
Is your top priority today derived from your top objective? _________________________________
As soon as you are finished with this task, what's your next priority? _________________________________
Create Systems to Maximize Time -- Yours & Others...
A good way to pass along messages without interrupting is to use E-mail or voice mail. When you leave a message, give as much information as possible to reduce phone tag.
Make your voice and electronic mail quick and effective. Before you write or talk, think. Tell the person what specific action or response you need.
"Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts."~ Ted W. Engstrom
Today's Quest...
When you make your next call, will a voice-mail message work or do you need to speak with the other person? _________________________________
Do you really need to have a personal conversation when you make your next call? _________________________________
Was your last message clear, complete and specific? _________________________________
Make Time for What You Want...
Once You Know What You Want,Do You Take Action To Get It?
The first step is identifying those things that have the highest payoff for you. The second step is to give more time to those priorities in your life.
To increase your success this month, do more of what's most rewarding to you.
"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."~ Vince Lombardi
Today's Quest...
Have you taken the time to identify what's most important to get done today? _________________________________
You're always doing something. Why not do something of value? _________________________________
If there's something important that you've been thinking about doing, what will you do in the next 24 hours to take action on it? _________________________________
Make it Easy for Others to Help...
Do You Know What Empowerment Means?
A true leader is not served, but rather serves those he leads.
Those who would lead must first learn to serve, and then to inspire those they would lead.
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."~ Arthur Ashe
Today's Quest...
Have you done everything possible to ensure that your co-workers feel good about their best efforts today? _________________________________
Can you identify any barriers that may be preventing your co-workers from doing their best work? What can you do today to remove them? _________________________________
Whom can you help with a difficult task today? _________________________________
Seek to Double Your Results -- Ask "What Else Now"...
Chew Gum And Walk?
When you learn how to accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously, you'll multiply your results and make the most of every moment in your day.
Conduct your day like a symphony -- find ways to let the oboes and violins play in harmony.
"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal."~ Don Shula
Today's Quest...
Which of your tasks today will you handle simultaneously? _________________________________
Can you streamline tomorrow's schedule by piggy-backing some items? _________________________________
Which two appointments will you combine into one this week? _________________________________
Remain Constantly Connected to Your Mission...
Listen! Do You Wanna Know A Secret?
The secret to life is giving. There's no greater reward than knowing you've enriched the lives of others through your contributions.
Tap into the secret of life...Enrich this day for someone.
"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."~ Simone Weil
Today's Quest...
What have you contributed to your little corner of the world in the last week? _________________________________
What contribution can you offer to your world right now? _________________________________
In what ways would you like to contribute more? _________________________________
Create Highly Compelling Visions. Clarify. Evaluate. Commit...
Does Your Vision Have Value?
Real vision comes from real value. Where there's real value in the organization, people don't need to be inspired to work. They're inspired -- already!
People are inspired by a vision worthy of their contribution. Find a way today to tie other people's work to a worthy vision.
"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, "there goes another day of my life, never to return," you will become time conscious."~ A. B. Zu Tavern
Today's Quest...
What's the inherent value in your organization's vision? _________________________________
Who in your organization seems to manifest best a belief in its values? _________________________________
What can you do to communicate your vision, and its value to others? _________________________________
Search Beyond Acceptable -- Find the BEST Alternatives...
Do You Postpone Tough Decisions?
Don't needlessly postpone making a tough decision. When you do, you multiply your problems down the road.
Once you've made a tough decision, do it... NOW!
"The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates."~ W. Alton Jones
Today's Quest...
Could anyone else shed more light on your choices? Who? _________________________________
Are you having trouble with a difficult problem only because you don't have all the facts? _________________________________
Is there anything else you need to know before making an upcoming decision? _________________________________
Speak Clearly -- Listen Carefully -- Confirm Messages...
May I Have Your Attention?
The most important part of speaking is the introduction. If you don't grab your listener's attention at once, chances are you never will.
Persuade your listeners to give you their attention first. Then communicate your message.
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."~ John G. Pollard
Today's Quest...
How many important conversations will you have today? _________________________________
With whom do you need to speak next? What will you say to get their undivided attention? _________________________________
What does your next listener most want to hear about? _________________________________
Live Each of Your Top 10 Core Personal Values -- All Day Long...
Can You Find Purpose In Preparing Your Next Meal?
If you want satisfaction in your life, link a higher purpose to every single thing you do.
Give your life a greater meaning by making each step of your day a purposeful positive step.
"People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning."~ Dennis the Menace
Today's Quest...
How many of your daily tasks can be influenced by your personal mission? _________________________________
How can you perform your next task as a function of your mission? _________________________________
How will you feel if you give each little thing you do today more meaning by connecting it to a higher purpose? _________________________________
Commit to Actually DOING Whatever It Takes -- Then DO It...
Are You Feeling Powerless To Change The World?
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never tried to sleep in a room with a mosquito.
Even the smallest action can make a measurable and noticeable difference. Identify something in this week's schedule for which you can don your mosquito costume.
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's Quest...
In what specific ways, today, can you be as persistent, determined and relentless as that mosquito? _________________________________
When others say you can't, do you agree with them. Or do you become more determined to succeed? _________________________________
Is there someone in your family who could use a new improved perspective of personal power? _________________________________
Stop and Think Things Through -- BEFORE Taking Action...
Why Do You Think They Send Out Scouting Parties?
Don't reinvent the wheel. Whenever you start a new job, see what's been done before. There are already trails blazed out there. Simply follow the best one.
Consult, confer and copy the best.
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."~ Plato
Today's Quest...
Is there an ego thing that keeps you from admiring and learning from others' successes? _________________________________
Which of your new jobs, tasks or roles could use some insight from someone who's already been there? _________________________________
What research can you do to prepare for that project you've been dreading? _________________________________
Create Highly Productive Systems to DO the Work FOR You...
Are You Organizing Or Agonizing?
Discover what actions have the greatest payoff for you. Then organize and automate your systems to support those actions.
Create the time to do more A1's by automating everything that leads to your A1 activities.
"Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."~ James Ling
Today's Quest...
How will you automate at least two things that payoff in a greater return for your time and effort? _________________________________
What's the most important thing you do? How can you automate these actions so that you can do more of them? _________________________________
What do you do that has the greatest payoff? How can you automate the process that leads you to those high payoff activities?
Actively Recruit Others to Help...
Anybody Else Want To Play?
There are incredibly talented people willing and able to participate in your dream. They only need your vision, your direction and your appreciation. Together, there's nothing you can't do.
Great dreams are never accomplished alone.
"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do."~ Albert Gray
Today's Quest...
If there were an ideal team position that you'd like to fill, which one would it be right now? _________________________________
Who needs and wants more responsibility on your team? _________________________________
Where would your dream be helped by the addition of a new team member? _________________________________
Continuously Monitor Your Energy Level to Your Current Performance...
So How'd You Feel When You Left Work Yesterday?
Peak performance demands that you control, pace, and renew your energy on a continous basis throughout the day. You simply can't start with a charged battery each morning, run it down all day, and expect to completely recharge it overnight.
Peak power results from self-awareness and self maintenance -- not self-abuse.
"I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best."~ Akeem Olajuwon
Today's Quest...
When you get home and turn into a lump, what are you missing out on? _________________________________
What time is a consistently low energy point in your day? _________________________________
What will you do to energize yourself before your next appointment?
Calendar the Major Milestones of EVERY Goal...
How Can You Build More Celebration Into Your Life?
A properly set goal contains a series of objectives built into it.
Objectives bring clarity where there's fuzziness, scheduling them brings them into reality.
"Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination."~ Fitzhugh Dodson
Today's Quest...
How many separate goals will it take to reach your ultimate career goal? _________________________________
What's the next objective on the path to this month's goal? _________________________________
What will your A1 objective be tomorrow? _________________________________
Focus on Your Top Priorities -- First...
Don't Know Where To Start?
Which of your tasks today will give you the greatest payoff? Schedule those into your calendar first.
Trim your list. Choose those items that will give the most return for your time and your effort, and focus on them first.
"The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place."~ Roger Birkman
Today's Quest...
Where do you have control over your time choices today? _________________________________
What do you predict will be today's greatest payoff activity? _________________________________
Where is the best time slot in your schedule for your highest payoff item today? _________________________________
Dream Big -- Lead by Example and Inspire True Commitment...
Want To Know Where Your Organization Will End Up?
The only way to control the future of your organization is to create it.
You can predict your future only when you put yourself in charge of it.
"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."~ Norman Allen
Today's Quest...
What do you want the future to hold for your organization? _________________________________
What can you do today to "predict" your organization's future? _________________________________
What attitudes and actions are required by you and your people right now to guarantee the future you want? _________________________________
Take Full Responsibility for How Your Day Works Out...
Missing Something?
If you feel something's lacking in your life, don't promise yourself you'll start on it "later" when conditions are better. Start now.
"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!" - Goethe
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."~ George Bernard Shaw
Today's Quest...
What's one thing you've wanted to add to your life but haven't yet? _________________________________
Where in today's schedule can you get started on that project you never seem to find time for? _________________________________
What do you always dream of?
Get Fully Engaged Quickly -- Or Get Out Gracefully...
Time Is Money. Can You Afford To Waste Either?
Did you ever stop to examine the actual cost of your meetings? If you multiply each person's hourly salary by the length of the meeting, you may be appalled at the total cost of the meeting.
Weigh the actual cost of your next scheduled meeting against what will be gained by holding it.
"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."~ Ovid
Today's Quest...
Do some quick math. Approximately how much did your last meeting cost? _________________________________
Think about the cost of your meetings. When are they worth it? _________________________________
How much will your next scheduled meeting cost, approximately? _________________________________
Put a Value on Time Invested...
Are You Wasting Time Wishing For More Time?
Your life is a fixed sum of days. You'll never know the total until it's over. The only thing you do know is that after today, you'll have one day less.
If you want to make every minute count, start with this one.
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's Quest...
After today is gone forever, where will you be the most proud of the time you invested? _________________________________
How many days do you have left? _________________________________
How many days are you willing to spend, foolishly believing you have plenty more days to spare? _________________________________
Minimize Mistakes by Following Checklists...
Who's Watching The Nuts And Bolts?
Look at the flow of your work. Find patterns that repeat. Create a checklist, and then make sure that someone keeps these patterns flowing with "checked-off" perfection.
When your success depends on procedures, depend on checklists.
"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."~ John W. Gardner
Today's Quest...
How often do you perform your present task? _________________________________
Would putting your repeated routines on a list help streamline them? _________________________________
Whom can you put in charge to oversee your daily checklists? _________________________________
Do What's Important Next -- Regardless of Difficulty...
Are You Following Your List? Really?
Arrange items on your priority list in order of their importance. Then start at the top and work down. Make it a rule: Never purposely skip an item just because you don't want to do it.
Do first things first today. Finish them first, too.
"Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one."~ Kirk Kirkpatrick
Today's Quest...
Have you skipped anything on your list today? Ready to go back? _________________________________
What are you telling yourself when you've skipped over an important item several days in a row? _________________________________
What can you do to make sure that you address your top projects first thing tomorrow? _________________________________
Persist With Passion Until the Desired Results are Attained...
Are You Walking The Walk, Or Just Talking The Talk?
Simply setting a goal is not enough. If you want to reach your goal, you must continue taking whatever actions are necessary until you do.
Goals must be continuously reinforced with the passion and the reasons for attaining the goal.
"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."~ Irving Berlin
Today's Quest...
How many of your daily routines are directly tied to your goals? _________________________________
What neglected commitment can you attend to today? _________________________________
Which activities in tomorrow's schedule will payoff your most important goals? _________________________________
Sunday, January 4, 2009
I further agree to the following on a daily basis:
Prepare everyday for the opportunities I know will come.
Commit to improving and developing myself both mentally and physically.
Manage my time wisely through the use of written goals.
Avoid negative thinkers and dream stealers.
Define my own life and not lot it be defined by others.
Determine to make today better than yesterday for myself and everyone I meet.
Be enthusiastic and be persistent toward what I want for my life.
Focus on things that make me happy, not on things that depress me.
Invest in myself, whether it be in the area of personal development, exercise, or relaxation. Encourage someone today.
Take time everyday, to be thankful for all I have.
Signature Fred Brownell Date 1/01/2009
Commit to improving and developing myself both mentally and physically.
Manage my time wisely through the use of written goals.
Avoid negative thinkers and dream stealers.
Define my own life and not lot it be defined by others.
Determine to make today better than yesterday for myself and everyone I meet.
Be enthusiastic and be persistent toward what I want for my life.
Focus on things that make me happy, not on things that depress me.
Invest in myself, whether it be in the area of personal development, exercise, or relaxation. Encourage someone today.
Take time everyday, to be thankful for all I have.
Signature Fred Brownell Date 1/01/2009
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